Tamar Lusztig is a seasoned trial lawyer with substantial courtroom experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts across the country. Tamar represents her clients at trial and on appeal in a wide variety of matters concerning intellectual property, antitrust, commercial contracts, and other high-stakes, complex issues.
Tamar has amassed an impressive docket of high-profile cases, often facing off – and prevailing – against opponents with substantially more resources than her clients. Tamar’s clients and colleagues look to her for her creative problem-solving, strategic acumen, and judgment to help secure victory in bet-the-company cases.
LANDMARK RESULTS
Tamar is no stranger to securing massive wins for her clients, winning nearly $2 billion in trial verdicts and judgments in 2024 alone. In 2024 she won a $1.6 billion bench trial verdict for client BML Properties in New York’s Commercial Division on fraud and breach of contract claims against China Construction America (CCA) arising out of the development of the Baha Mar casino and resort. Playing a key role at trial, Tamar led the damages portion of the case, examining her team’s expert and cross-examining CCA’s expert, ultimately achieving 100% of her client’s ask. She also cross-examined a high-level executive from CCA. Her work in the matter had a major impact on the enormous result the Court held was compelled by the fraud “established beyond doubt” by Tamar and her colleagues. Read more. The judgment was affirmed in full on appeal by the First Department in April 2025.
Tamar has also won multiple jury verdicts on behalf of Dutch telecommunications company Koninklijke KPN N.V. (“KPN”). In a recent contract matter against Samsung, she secured a $341 million victory, in which the jury awarded every penny of the damages model Tamar presented after deliberating for less than three hours. Read more about this case in Texas Lawyer or here. The prior year she helped to win a $31.5 million jury victory against Swedish giant Ericsson over patent infringement claims relating to telecommunications networks. In that trial, Tamar put on KPN’s entire damages case, including directing the examination of KPN’s expert and cross examining Ericsson’s damages expert. Read more about the case in Texas Lawyer, Law360 or here.
Tamar previously represented New York University in a lawsuit brought by FASORP, a Texas organization that claimed the university discriminated against white men. Tamar briefed, argued, and won the case on the pleadings before the district court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. You can read the Second Circuit’s precedential decision here, listen to Tamar’s winning argument here, and read more about the case here, here, here, and here.
BACKGROUND
Tamar joined Susman Godfrey after earning her J.D. from Columbia Law School and serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis L. Stanton of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Tamar has been recognized on the Lawdragon 500 list of Leading Litigators in 2024 and on Benchmark Litigation’s 40 and Under Hot List in 2022 and 2023.
